Blind athelets at Overbrook, Pa. – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of Blind athelets at Overbrook, Pa. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Blind athelets at Overbrook, Pa.
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Overbrook, in West Philadelphia, was home to a long-established school for blind students, and this picture places its young athletes at the center of the scene. The Bain News Service, a commercial photo agency active in New York from the early 1900s into the 1920s, made the glass negative, and its caption data supplied the title, though the record marks that information as unverified. Glass plates like this one were the standard working medium of press and commercial photographers of the period, so the image also shows the technical conditions of its time. Sports programs at schools for the blind drew public attention in those years as a way to show what disabled students could accomplish, which gives the picture a context beyond the athletic moment itself.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,798 × 4,209 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-10390 |
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